Carlos Quintero's blog

Visual Studio “Orcas” will feature a new Web Form designer codenamed “Quartz” based on FrontPage technologies replacing the one of Visual Studio 2005 codenamed “Trident” based on IE (MSHTML): Sapphire: New Web Form designer in Visual Studio Orcas http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2007/01/20/sapphire-new-web-form-designer-in-visual-studio-orcas.aspx If you have tried to make your Visual Studio add-in to work with WebForms or HTML […]

A new article of my MZ-Tools articles series about a bug of VS 2005: BUG: Tooltip not set for add-in commands in Visual Studio 2005 http://www.mztools.com/articles/2007/MZ003.htm

If you are developing addins for Visual Studio, you should be aware that there are several localized editions (Spanish, German, French, etc.). This article provides info to take into account when locating commandbars by name in your add-in: HOWTO: Locate commandbars in international versions of Visual Studio http://www.mztools.com/articles/2007/MZ002.htm

In a previous post I mentioned several tools that are part of my toolset as an add-in developer. In this post I would like to mention Microangelo, an icon editor that I use to create the icons/pictures for the command buttons of my MZ-Tools add-in. Once created there, I copy and paste them in the […]

It has been several weeks since my last post but December 2006 was a quite hectic month, apart from the Christmas I got a LASIK operation for myopia on December 1 and I worked hard to get a new build of my MZ-Tools add-in with many optimizations for January 1. So, Happy New Year! I […]